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i would ask them how they think we should combat the immense amount of disinformation about what AI is, what it feasibly can do, and how much it disrupts our lives.

There are way too many techbros out there pushing this dooms day idea, stealing jobs, etc. Its all hype to sell their snake oil and i think its all our jobs to combat that.

i agree people are angry. After hearing so many people talk about the issues they are angry about it becomes very obvious they are ignorant on the topics. But it’s not just ignorant, its a fundamental world view issue.

Look at the economy. People want to blame Dems for inflation. The US is doing the best of first world countries to combat it but no one seems to get that. You ask these same people what would fix the problem and they look to either kick out immigrants or “stick it to foreign countries.” Well the immigrants arent taking high paying jobs and neither are foreign countries. So either you really dont get how things work, or you’re kind of racist/xenophobic. And after the past years of issues where people are just generally being assholes to one another, i tend to want to believe this is really just deep levels of hate we kept hidden before. Trump didnt make people hate more, he just made it socially acceptable.

If I’m wrong and its just ignorance on how the world works and people voted poorly… doesn’t really solve much.

But we are far enough out that “cabin fever” would have passed. What we are seeing are people’s true colors, they just don’t have any shame to hide it anymore.

I can easily see the party fracture, Republicans and MAGA. If they do split it may be a while before they come back into power.

Since the pandemic I’ve lost a lot of faith in humanity. Way too many people not giving a shit about others and now actively supporting hate. I’d like to think the problem is education, that by being informed on politics and having a real and strong epistemology we’d be shedding ourselves of all this garbage. Now, I just think a lot of people will always be horrible human beings.

When those politicians are up for re-election, it’s fairly easy for someone to tabulate whether or not those goals were met. If there are extenuating circumstances (overwhelming opposition, for example), then they can use that to defend themselves. This would help hold their feet to the fire.

Oddly it seems like little to no Republican voters recognize that Trump never passed anything of substance. They also seem to not understand how the economy actually works, see that during a booming economy Trump ran up one of the largest deficits. Trump sought to get rid of major safety nets which lower and middle class tend to use the most and tend to also be the redest counties.

If you tabulate up all the pros and cons for the Republican candiate, aside from normalizing hate, all of the perceived benefits are just voters not paying attention in their civics classes in highschool. I don’t think expecting voters to actually do their due diligence really works.

China has intentionally printed and destroyed currency to maneuver themselves against other countries. It’s one thing where you modify rates to influence inflation and spending but extreme manhandling your financial system means you are not a stable system to base the world economy on. While any country could screw everyone over, its the fact they have already manipulated things that makes them scary.

So what you’re asking for is the party politic talking points they already publish and never actually vote for? We already have a party that says one thing and have voted consistently against their entire published position for a good 40+ years. I don’t see much changing there.

I think a better solution is to hold politicians feet to the fire. When they have debates play the clip of them from a rally stating they want to X horrible thing or where they just negated their previous statement. “You claim to he for a working wage but lets play the clip from CSPAN where you are against increasing minimum wage and call people working in fast food ‘lazy and dumb’”.

Unfortunately a huge portion of voters dont care about actual facts and vote purely by ideology or religious views or are easily swept up in the propaganda l. We should be outlawing ads that are obvious false statements or try and bend the situation to look drastically different.

It looks to be pushed by a few big countries who love to tamper with their monetary system which will be a big No No if they are part of the new system. This feels like a foot gun.

I think the big issue with this is we would fall prey to the BS spin some parties like to push. Based on their stated goals like focusing on the family, workers rights, smaller government, you’d think they are a great option. But once you start yo listen to the candidates talk what you find out is that their entire list of selling points are made up and not at all what they want to push.

While i agree some of the personal life stuff is ridiculous, looking at how some of these politicians act in society we aee exactly what they will be doing when “representing” all of us. If the candidate is a horrible person I’d hope that people qould recognize that they will not service the people fairly. But post pandemic we have seen that there is a lot of really crappy people out there who used to just keep quiet about their horrible views, today they are just lacking shame.

Digital media just kills me. Back in the CD and DVD days I sent back a bunch of discs that were too scrarched to use and i would get coupons to replace them. Often times the publishers included an extra one just because they didn’t want you to pirate stuff. Buying physical media meant you licensed it even when you physically couldn’t so they were compelled to solve the problem.

See you’re trying to steer the conversation

Oh of course. Half of the staff at any of these types of apps are looking for a huge sell out which requires bastardizing the concept. I just wish for once one of these apps would stay true to their original stated purpose. Ride Share means you’re going this way for a reason too, not just to be a taxi.

I feel like HURD is the generational starship of operating systems. Will never be completed in my lifetime but eventually my great great grand children may some day use it.

Think less about time sharing and more about using all the computers you own together.

You would have a netbook with no compute power as your UI sitting on your couch. You could connect to your beefy desktop to do all the computations for your video editor or playing a game and never have to be sitting at your desk.

You could also have a big file store device with lots of drives to store stuff.

We can do some of this now, I ssh into my desktop from my couch and have a NFS in the basement. But they all operate as separate devices that i have to really work at getting to operate together. Plan9 was designed where you’d just pick devices off of the network and the tasks operated normally. Pick your video card, local or over the network to the beefier GPU.

Oh we need a Jarrarium community too. As well as one to talk about isopods and springtails.

I don’t think it matters what tools you use as long as it works.

That would be true if other systems and services depend on them. Would have been nice to come out with a standard and designed systemd around that standard. Then you pick the tool you want that follows the standard rather than be tied into systemd.

Worth noting is that a process not managed by pid 1 isn’t really a thing you want generally

I would disagree. A compromised Docker doesn’t mean i have access to things managed by PID1. The entire control model is based around moving your publicly available services further away from something with the highest level of access. Be it users or processes.

Their complaint was that people bitch about systemd. The issue people have is that systemd does too much.

And systemd is far more resources intensive than runit. Wasn’t really the point.

Kind of nice to not have a bug in my container service possibly have access to pid 1.

Personally I’d like my container/vm/chroot handled by something detached from pid 1. I get that much of the overal systemd project is separate blocks of code but it’s the fact they are bound together that it becomes an issue. I would have loved for the systemd team yo first publish a set of APIs that all their components would us and allow the same integration while being completely different projects.